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Hit a real low.

grantg said:
slow & steady gets u there its a marathon and not a sprint insulin resistance / average weight/bmi etc.



your doing exceptionally well. especially over the last few days! thats some amount of progress you should be very proud!
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I am pleased with my progress and very grateful for everyone's support.

Just finished putting food together for work tomorrow. I've calculated carbs for everything because I think it'll be easier doing it the night before when I'm going to be at work.

Overnight oats for breakfast with strawberries and blueberries.
Chorizo, cheese and salad wrap and a Greek yogurt for lunch.
Gym Kitchen paella for my dinner. Ready meal because I couldn't face anymore cooking today.
 
Failed myself today. Breakfast and lunch were fine, the struggle came at the cinema and I failed. Popcorn and chocolate, guessed on insulin dose, BG now quite high. Just given a correction and hoping it comes down before bed.
 
No, you didn’t fail. You guessed the dose yes, but you took the insulin. And you have done what anyone else would do and taken a correction dose. Sometimes that’s just what happens…..to everyone.
 
one thing to consider with correctional dose, if eating other food shortly after careful not too close together. 2 injections in space of a couple of hours levels can drop pretty quickly due to insulin stacking effect.

the cinema trip sounds like fun what did you watch? i've seen an advertisement for a freaky friday sequel (just the poster) think its called freakier friday? I remember the original film being pretty funny years ago half tempted to watch when or if comes out on amazon video. the new superman movie was ok prefered the original ones... wanting to watch the new fantastic four

purpose of correctional doses is to fix mistakes which do happen thats the entire purpose. good job. only other bit of advice have is if guessing ensure to have some glucose handy incase a little too much. ps loads have forgotten if or when they've injected. i found making it part of routine directly after injecting to mark it in the libre app, some others love echo6 pen (which can do half unit doses makes things easier for carb counting .. .not needing to round as much) holding pen to the nfc will insert doses for you if prefer, that smart pen also has a last dosage function which tells you the time and amount
 
philly1991 said:
the struggle came at the cinema and I failed. Popcorn and chocolate, guessed on insulin dose, BG now quite high.
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Not a fail.
Eating popcorn and chocolate at the cinema is perfectly normal, healthy behaviour.
Non diabetics do it all the time and produce the appropriate amount of insulin to go with it, us T1's need to try to inject the appropriate amount of insulin instead because we don't produce it ourselves.

Your experience today taught you you need more insulin for popcorn and chocolate than you thought, so next time you can adjust your dose.
High numbers after dosing aren't a fail at all, they're useful data to work with for the next time you have something similar.

I think you're doing really well, you've been injecting for all your food since starting this thread!
Mis-guessing or miscalculating is not a fail, it's something to work on. Not injecting because of a mental block is much harder to deal with.
 
I’ve gone through the same thing, honestly. For a while I was either skipping doses or just guessing and then chasing highs later, and it felt like I was stuck in this cycle where the more I messed up, the less motivated I was to fix it. What helped me a bit was focusing on just one thing I could control instead of trying to get it all perfect, like making sure I never missed my morning shot, even if the rest of the day went off track. It wasn’t a magic fix, but it gave me something to build on, and it slowly got a bit easier to stay consistent.
 
grantg said:
how did you get on yesterday @philly1991 ?
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Much better yesterday, thankyou. Also going strong today. My only issue yesterday was I was taken to a pub which didn't have any nutritional information I could find and I didn't want to mess up again so I didn't eat. I was so hungry when I finally got back. I have the carbs and cals app but didn't even think to use it.
 
if after a rough carbs guide, without having to faff too much with carbs and cals app, you can look up a ready meal ... carbs and use that as a guide ... then do a correctional dose later on if necesary. there are also apps available which use AI to give an 'educated guess' to the carbs via a photograph and a description I'd err on side of caution if going with the ai version and just run a little higher via injecting a unit / unit and a half less, can always do correctional dose later on.

everyone makes mistakes and not everything can be planned for i'll look up the ai app if you think it might be useful to you bear in mind would likely need to correct later ? also sometimes it can be necesary to inject when food arrives (if cant get eta on food, or they are later than they said might even need to take some glucose in that scenario) you still can enjoy yourself

glad did good yesterday and going strong today
 
ps over time you'll get good at judging carbs and it will soon become natural

forgot to say draw on your prior experiences if out and about can also be helpful. eg if had simular meal at home or indeed somewhere else which familur with.. could go with carbs you've worked out for that as an option
 
I'd love to be able to share some screenshots of my libre app and share some of the progress I've made but for some reason I cannot attach files!
 
philly1991 said:
I'd love to be able to share some screenshots of my libre app and share some of the progress I've made but for some reason I cannot attach files!
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whats the error message you receive? there is other sites which can use to upload images to and could post link to such as https://imgur.com/ if the attach files button is not functioning properly for you.

pretty sure your graph from just a couple of weeks ago compared to one from the last few days will be a tremendous improvement

heres one of my early graphs (also just testing to see if i can upload)
 
test?

completely all over the place back then

i used the following site for this img, just could require to copy the img tag one bbcode line: postimg.cc
 
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It says something like oops, we ran into some problems. Oddly it'll allow one picture but not another.
 
grantg said:
How's the weekend gone for you? -)
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It's been okay, yesterday breakfast and lunch went fine, I also had a walk after breakfast and went to a cafe. Cup of tea and cake at the cafe which I injected for. So all of that was good. Then later I had an Indian at a friends house which I didn't inject for. But I did correct later so not all bad. Today I have slept all day so I haven't eaten or had any insulin but my BG has been stable so that's okay.
 
sounds like your right on track well done love indian food YUMMY what did you have love dal (lentil based curry) m&s's black dal is 23g carbs very tasty, (says serves two... yeah right...) there tamarind Dal 25g is also pretty decent, needs a little bit extra cheyenne pepper or something to give it a wee kick though imo.

I have a nice low(ish) carb variant with a little coconut note which occassionally make at home if you like can post recipe for it which has 15g per 200ml
 
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